Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant - This re-designed cassette tape shell features a USB drive that extends from the bottom as the user manually spins the spools. Taking inspiration from Basinski's Disintigration Loops, Nuttle and Salvant created a custom program that digitally degrades that sample rate of audio. As the USB drive is inserted into a computer, a program loads to prompt an audio file upload. Once audio is uploaded the program begins a long process of playing the audio back in full, then downsampling 100Hz, again and again decreasing the fidelity of the audio until the sample becomes inauduble at 0Hz.

Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant - Side B Detail View with USB release mechanism

Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant - Side 1 Detail View

Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant - Side 1 Detail View with USB release mechanism

Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant - J-Card and Case detail view

Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant - J-Card and Case spine detail view

Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant - J-Card, Tape and Case detail view Side B

Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant - J-Card, Tape and Case detail view Side 1

Data Drift by Jason Nuttle and Jason Salvant

Fall 2023